Rage.

[owlectomy]

There is nothing that's "Christian" about advice like "If you dress like a piece of meat, you're gonna get thrown on the BBQ" or "Girls, giving your affection to a guy right away... just gives him a prize without making him fight for it. He didn't have to make an effort. He didn't invest any money. And now you give him a prize" or "Every new sexual experience when you are not married puts another ding, another scratch, another scar on who you are."

Justin Lookadoo and Hayley DiMarco, you suck. Revell Books, Hungry Planet, you suck, go away. You want to tell someone who's been raped that she's now a "beat-up old used car"? You freaking suck.

And this is why the Twilight books are so popular, you know?

Because girls don't want to be told that they have the sole responsibility for not letting anyone have sex with them, for not getting treated like a piece of meat. They don't want to have that job. Twilight -- it's all the passion and none of the guilt, and it's the guy who's put into that gatekeeper role. And as much as I hate those books, as much as I think they have poisonous attitudes about men and women and romantic relationships, it's better than what's in "Dateable."

Comments

[meaghanchan.livejournal.com]

Everyone suffers, but the metaphor of a pendulum is incredibly ill-fitting, and, quite frankly, pretty offensive to me, when there has never been a time in history when men as a group were denied the right to vote, or a time when women controlled the vast majority of government and corporations. (NOT that this would be a good thing- it would not- just trying to illustrate what a pendulum swinging easily between two points would actually look like).

The metaphor of a pendulum suggests that sometimes men have more of the power, sometimes women have more of the power, but hey, it pretty much evens out in the end.

To me, it's much more like a very heavy box... which started out (at least in the dominant Western civilization) very, very far on the men's side, and which countless people (mostly women) have been pushing, pushing, pushing for hundreds of years. And it's not in the middle yet.